The assistive devices market doesn't need patents to screw it up - the government agencies that subsidize their purchase have been doing that by themselves for decades.
Other people on this post have been saying that "special purpose devices are dead anyway". I wish that were true - many agencies that buy assistive devices for people who can't afford them are required to buy special purpose, even if a general purpose device costs 1/10th as much, because their clients might use a state-provided laptop/tablet for things other than assistance.
You have to be able to do the "beginner's mind" trick - to think like a student at the appropriate level when writing.
I can't do that to save my life, and I doubt I'm alone. I can run classes and deliver lectures from lessons constructed by someone else, but on my own I'm an acceptable substitute for sleeping pills.
If your IT regime has any sort of remote update system, your backup image will gradually get outdated as IT pushes patches onto the standard one. It will be seriously out-of-date if you ever restore it before returning the machine.
In NASA funding, it seems the best you can hope for is that the politicians do the right thing (encourage private space transportation) for the wrong reason (it's cheaper). Obama is doing the right thing - the problem is Congress.
SLS funding enthusiasm is not so much partisan as it it regional. The NASA centers in Florida, Texas, Alabama, and California want SLS to continue so the jobs in their states/districts will continue. Those states may look like they're solid red or blue, but if you look at their representatives on the House Space subcommittee, they're surprisingly balanced - typically one D and one R.
It's hard for an American President to win re-election if the economy is bad. The US economy is unlikely to be "good" by November, especially if your memories of "good" include the internet bubble of the late 90's and the housing bubble of the late 2000's.
And Apple could start selling phones that weren't locked to a carrier, only for real (GSM/CDMA).
The early adopters and heavy users would still buy them even at $650+, and they'd be able to switch carriers faster than every two years, on the basis of performance and customer service rather than contract expiration.
Be careful what you whine for... you just might get it, good and hard.
RIAA chief gets his head handed to him by the Internet. He feels compelled to reply, and his choice of venue is...
An old-line media outlet that loses relevance every time one of its articles slips back inside its paywall.
And thus the difference between law and science
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In law, respect for the process is paramount, even when the process produces results that are obviously absurd or unjust. There was no procedural problem with Turing's abuse by the system, so there is nothing to change.
In science, respect for results is paramount. If there is a reproducible result that shows the textbooks to be wrong, they will eventually be changed.
2. For a backdoor to be useful, it has to have a covert way to communicate. All the internet hardware for OS X is straightforward to monitor for unexplained network access. It would be much easier to sneak data out through the wireless carrier portion of iOS.
Granted, these raw totals obscure a few things (if you looked at dollars per unit of energy delivered, oil and coal subsidies would be smaller than wind and solar). But the overall disparity is stunning, given everything we know about the harm fossil fuels are doing.
For some reason, they didn't look at subsidies in $/kwh. It's not like they're hard to find on the web. That source puts fossil fuel subsidies at 0.8 cents/kwh and "renewables" (non-nuclear, non-hydropower) at 5 cents/kwh.
A Siri API for specific swappable tools like calendars would be hard, but not impossible. Convincing Apple to create that API would likely be the hardest part.
Creating a calendar entry or reminder is faster with Siri than with the appropriate apps.
Siri: * Poke Siri, speak command * Wait for network overhead * Verify that Siri understood (with reminders and calendar entries, it usually does)
Normal: * Find appropriate app and launch it (suspend current app, scroll and poke) * Find create new entry button * Type new label * Scroll and poke to set date/time and save
Agreed, Siri doesn't really understand speech, but for certain stylized interactions it's an advance over typing.
The Star Trek universe has a strong Luddite streak when it comes to computers:
Original series - the episodes "Court Martial" and "The Ultimate Computer" (M5) spring to mind.
Next generation - the new Enterprise's computer was clearly not as smart as the old one. Despite his obvious success, Data-like androids never went into mass production (just run Data through a replicator).
3. Taking a near-monopoly in one market (business e-mail) and trying to use it to create another near-monopoly in another market (business smartphones) is what got Microsoft in trouble during the browser wars.
Those lawsuits went on for over a decade in the US and Europe. If Microsoft is smart, they won't subject themselves to that again if they can avoid it.
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The only reasonable way to compare energy subsidies is on a money per energy unit basis (money in for energy out).
According to this, renewable energy (solar/wind - not hydropower) gets about six times as much subsidy on a per kilowatt-hour basis as fossil fuel.
If you took away all subsidies, fossil fuels would go up about 10% in cost, renewable sources would double in cost.
This is direct subsidy - how much of the US military budget to assign to oil subsidy is another argument.
You won't like it.
The assistive devices market doesn't need patents to screw it up - the government agencies that subsidize their purchase have been doing that by themselves for decades.
Other people on this post have been saying that "special purpose devices are dead anyway". I wish that were true - many agencies that buy assistive devices for people who can't afford them are required to buy special purpose, even if a general purpose device costs 1/10th as much, because their clients might use a state-provided laptop/tablet for things other than assistance.
... YET.
That would be an actual content upgrade, worth a token payment.
Not true. Note that:
* Those prices are not adjusted for inflation
* The trend since 2005 has been down
You have to be able to do the "beginner's mind" trick - to think like a student at the appropriate level when writing.
I can't do that to save my life, and I doubt I'm alone. I can run classes and deliver lectures from lessons constructed by someone else, but on my own I'm an acceptable substitute for sleeping pills.
If your IT regime has any sort of remote update system, your backup image will gradually get outdated as IT pushes patches onto the standard one. It will be seriously out-of-date if you ever restore it before returning the machine.
Chinese nationalism vs. Chinese gadget lust
The immovable object meets the irresistible force - get your tickets now!
One would think your pediatrician would just check your scheduled vaccines, and skip any which contain eggs and have no non-egg substitute.
As others have said here, if your doctor isn't willing to do that, you need another doctor anyway.
Minister Toews should be fine, then, with his office's internet access being logged and stored.
Should be perfectly safe - after all, you only have something to fear if you're doing something wrong, or if the government's records leak.
Right?
In NASA funding, it seems the best you can hope for is that the politicians do the right thing (encourage private space transportation) for the wrong reason (it's cheaper). Obama is doing the right thing - the problem is Congress.
SLS funding enthusiasm is not so much partisan as it it regional. The NASA centers in Florida, Texas, Alabama, and California want SLS to continue so the jobs in their states/districts will continue. Those states may look like they're solid red or blue, but if you look at their representatives on the House Space subcommittee, they're surprisingly balanced - typically one D and one R.
It's hard for an American President to win re-election if the economy is bad. The US economy is unlikely to be "good" by November, especially if your memories of "good" include the internet bubble of the late 90's and the housing bubble of the late 2000's.
And Apple could start selling phones that weren't locked to a carrier, only for real (GSM/CDMA).
The early adopters and heavy users would still buy them even at $650+, and they'd be able to switch carriers faster than every two years, on the basis of performance and customer service rather than contract expiration.
Be careful what you whine for... you just might get it, good and hard.
RIAA chief gets his head handed to him by the Internet. He feels compelled to reply, and his choice of venue is...
An old-line media outlet that loses relevance every time one of its articles slips back inside its paywall.
In law, respect for the process is paramount, even when the process produces results that are obviously absurd or unjust. There was no procedural problem with Turing's abuse by the system, so there is nothing to change.
In science, respect for results is paramount. If there is a reproducible result that shows the textbooks to be wrong, they will eventually be changed.
Japan's population is declining and aging faster than anywhere else on Earth. This is a double whammy that is going to destroy their national budget.
Have you tried iforgot.apple.com?
First hit on Google from iPad "locked for security reasons"...
Two big reasons:
1. OS X is a lot more open. than iOS.
2. For a backdoor to be useful, it has to have a covert way to communicate. All the internet hardware for OS X is straightforward to monitor for unexplained network access. It would be much easier to sneak data out through the wireless carrier portion of iOS.
The next two lines in TFA:
Granted, these raw totals obscure a few things (if you looked at dollars per unit of energy delivered, oil and coal subsidies would be smaller than wind and solar). But the overall disparity is stunning, given everything we know about the harm fossil fuels are doing.
For some reason, they didn't look at subsidies in $/kwh. It's not like they're hard to find on the web. That source puts fossil fuel subsidies at 0.8 cents/kwh and "renewables" (non-nuclear, non-hydropower) at 5 cents/kwh.
The closest you can get is to have external apps sync with your main iCloud calendar.
A Siri API for specific swappable tools like calendars would be hard, but not impossible. Convincing Apple to create that API would likely be the hardest part.
Creating a calendar entry or reminder is faster with Siri than with the appropriate apps.
Siri:
* Poke Siri, speak command
* Wait for network overhead
* Verify that Siri understood (with reminders and calendar entries, it usually does)
Normal:
* Find appropriate app and launch it (suspend current app, scroll and poke)
* Find create new entry button
* Type new label
* Scroll and poke to set date/time and save
Agreed, Siri doesn't really understand speech, but for certain stylized interactions it's an advance over typing.
The Star Trek universe has a strong Luddite streak when it comes to computers:
Original series - the episodes "Court Martial" and "The Ultimate Computer" (M5) spring to mind.
Next generation - the new Enterprise's computer was clearly not as smart as the old one. Despite his obvious success, Data-like androids never went into mass production (just run Data through a replicator).
If you plan to make money on your app via:
* Advertising
* Demographic data collection
you'll lean toward Android - more users, more support from Google, no interference from Apple.
If you plan to make money from people who pay for software, you'll go for iOS.
Schmidt may be right - "free" has a definite mass appeal.
3. Taking a near-monopoly in one market (business e-mail) and trying to use it to create another near-monopoly in another market (business smartphones) is what got Microsoft in trouble during the browser wars.
Those lawsuits went on for over a decade in the US and Europe. If Microsoft is smart, they won't subject themselves to that again if they can avoid it.